Turkey. Prisoners, including: Threat of reprisals by the Turkish authorities following...

Turkey. Prisoners, including:

Threat of reprisals by the Turkish authorities following rumours of a plan for British, French and Russian detachments to take Turkish hostages; denial of the plan by the British Government.

Enquiry from Burroughs Wellcome and Company regarding a request for medical equipment from Kiazim, a prisoner interned in Malta.

Dr Nishan Y Baghdigian, interned in India: enquiries regarding his release.

Madame Cazes, an Ottoman subject resident in Constantinople: refusal of permssion for her to join her daughter in England, and question of whether remittances could be sent to her as an enemy subject.

Mr Arthur Vere: arrangements regarding the payment of rent for his property in Constantinople; assistance provided by Mss Eveline Whitaker.

Muhammad Ghalib Effendi: enquiry about his property at Hyderabad, India.

Mr Ryan: request for the lease of his house in Pera to be renewed, and for a suitable European tenant to be found.

British Seamen's Hospital at Constantinople: provision of accounts.

Requisition of the British Seamen's Hospital at Smyrna by the Turkish authorities; enquiries regarding the fees to be paid to Dr Chalikiopulo employed at the hospital.

Arrest of Assim Bey, the Turkish Ambassador at Tehran, by the Russian authorities, including:

• Threat of reprisals by the Turkish Government.
• Information that the ambassador had been taken to Sweden, where no restrictions were placed on his movements.
• Proposal for his wife and daughter at Amara to be exchanged in return for British prisoners at Baghdad.

Accounts of the Friends Mission in Constantinople.

Transmission of a letter from Mrs Rose Buckman to Messrs Francis and Johnson via the American Embassy in Constantinople.

Enquiry about the payment of a pension to Madame Noblé by the Turkish Tobacco Régie, following the death of her husband.

Parliamentary question by Mr Cathcart Watson about Mrs McAllister and her son, who were interned in Jerusalem.

The Evelina de Rothschild School in Jerusalem: agreement for money to maintain the school to be raised in Jerusalem for the duration of the war.

Mr W W Oswald: request for assistance from the American Embassy in Constantinople in protecting his property at Bebek.

Pay of Turkish and Armenian medical officer personnel interned in India.

The estate of Mr Stephen Watkins, including:

• Transmission of documents to Mr R E F Lander in London.
• Arrangements for the London and Lancashire Life and General Assurance Society Limited to remit sums of money to Mrs Watkins in Smyrna, and details of payments made.

Mr William Habakkuk: sale of his property in Constantinople by Dr Frew.

Major H A Brett: letter to his wife reporting on his internment with Russian prisoners at Sivas; subsequent information that his transfer to Sivas was a retaliatory measure in response to the alleged ill-treatment of Ismail Hakky Bey, and that Major Brett had been returned to Afion Kara Hissar.

Allegations of the employment of Turkish prisoners in Mesopotamia (Iraq) to clear the field of battle under fire.

British prisoners captured at Kut-el-Amara, including:

• Enquiries by the British Red Cross about the provision of money and medical supplies to the prisoners.
• Lieutenant Colonel Huddleston: enquiry about the whereabouts of his son, Lieutenant G R G Huddleston; subsequent confirmation that Lieutenant Huddleston was interned at Castamouni.
• Request for a list of prisoners from the Turkish authorities; provision of certain names in docket no.91043.
• Mrs Claire Scott: request for information about her brother-in-law, Major A F Stewart.
• Information on the dispersal of the British prisoners among various camps.
• Parliamentary questions from the Earl of Desart in the House of Lords, requesting information on the names of the British prisoners captured at Kut-el-Amara.
• Private W W Vokes: confirmation that he was part of the Kut garrison, and provision of a contact address in Bombay.
• Provision of information on the number of British and Indian prisoners from the Kut garrison in Turkish hands.
• Mrs G Delamain: request for information on the whereabouts of Major General W I Delamain.
• Arrangements by the Indian Government for sending supplies and relief to the Indian prisoners from the Kut garrison.
• Details provided by the Red Cross and the American Embassy of the names of certain British officers (in docket nos.139146 and 141401).
• Parliamentary questions by Sir Edwin Cornwall and Colonel Yate about the treatment of non-commissioned officers and other ranks captured at Kut.
• Names of British officer prisoners interned at Castamouni, Afion Kara Hissar and Yozgad (in docket no. 149335).
• Names of British officers being transferred from Angora to Castamouni (in docket no.157756).
• List of British prisoners, including officers and other ranks, interned in various camps (in docket no.160525).
• Reports by the American Embassy in Constantinople on the condition of prisoners from the Kut garrison.
• List of names of British prisoners held at Adana (in docket no.165338).
• Mrs C Bigg Wither: request for information about Private Edward Dean.
• List of presumed British prisoners from the Kut garrison (in docket no.177635).
• Distribution of funds to British prisoners.

Code 1244 Files 41708-82558.

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